Dean
On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, David S. Miller wrote:
> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 00:56:46 -0800 (PST)
> From: Dean Gaudet <dgaudet-list-linux-kernel@arctic.org>
>
> No joke, the system had over 350Mb cached, it was definately not
> touching disk while accessing this directory. If it were touching
> disk I bet interactive performance would have been better.
>
> 2.0.x or 2.1.x, this is very important. The dcache in 2.0.x performs
> several orders of magnitude worse than in the 2.1.x kernel. Also, you
> could have long buffer cache hash chains, so experimenting with
> increasing the size of the buffer cache hash table would be
> interesting.
>
> Later,
> David S. Miller
> davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com
>
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